Associate Professor Ann-Sofie Lönngren (Sweden)

Ann-Sofie Lönngren is a Ph.D. (2008) and Associate Professor in literature (2014), currently working as a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university. She is associated with the Humanimal research group at this institution. Her main interests include Nordic 20th century literature, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, posthumanism, queer studies, transgender studies, and intersectionality. She is currently working on a project about human-animal transformations in modern literature from Europe’s northernmost part, written by, for example, Swedish authors August Strindberg and Selma Lagerlöf, Finnish authors Aino Kallas and Monika Fagerholm, Danish authors Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) and Peter Hœg, and Icelandic author Sjón. Since 2011, Lönngren has been the book-editor for Lambda Nordica: The Nordic Journal of LGBTQ Studies.

Articles in journals; peer-reviewed“Autism and the Question of the Human. Normative Subjects and the Significance of Emotions and Interaction in Research and Life Writing”, Literature and Medicine (forthcoming), by Jenny Bergenmar, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Ann-Sofie Lönngren